MELBOURNE : Former National Rugby League (NRL) star and England assistant Brett Hodgson has been appointed defence coach of Australia, linking up with Eddie Jones after their partnership at Twickenham was nixed by Jones's sacking in December.Hodgson was to join up with Jones at England after the autumn in
MELBOURNE : Former National Rugby League star and England assistant Brett Hodgson has been appointed defence coach of Australia, linking up with Eddie Jones after their partnership at Twickenham was nixed by Jones's sacking in December.
"I’m really excited to be back in Australia and working with the Wallabies, especially in a World Cup year," Hodgson said in a statement on Monday. "The Wallabies are a team everyone in Australia loves to get behind and from what I’ve seen so far there’s plenty of talent here and that’s something that’s really exciting."
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